This enables a person to swallow it easily. After swallowing, the bolus enters the esophagus, where gravity and muscle contractions help move it down to the stomach through a process called ...

The vagina is a flexible tube that joins the uterus to the vulva. Vaginas are usually around 3 inches long but may vary widely in color, size, and shape. The vaginal opening is the part of the ...

Once it turns back upward, both recurrent laryngeal nerves travel through a groove where the trachea (windpipe) and esophagus meet, pass behind part of the thyroid gland, then enter the larynx ...

Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) is a long-term immune system disease that causes inflammation to your esophagus, the tube that connects your mouth and stomach. Scientists think this may happen when ...

“It is no use asking for the impossible, such as, say, the exact wiring diagram for a cubic millimeter of brain tissue and the way all its neurons are firing,” Crick wrote in Scientific America ...

Heartburn and acid reflux are common during chemotherapy ("chemo"), caused by cancer drugs subsequently attacking cells of the stomach and esophagus (feeding tube). Symptoms can flare immediately ...

“Within an hour, it can burn a hole in your esophagus and be fatal,” Michael Gallacher said. “So I’m like, ‘Oh, we might have an hour to get somewhere.’” But remembering their ...

However, with disease progression to a more chronic state, inflammatory cells infiltrate the proximal of the trachea and larynx and distal of the smaller airways, periodically involving neighboring ...

The brain is a complex organ that controls thought, memory, emotion, touch, motor skills, vision, breathing, temperature, hunger and every process that regulates our body. Together, the brain and ...

“His doctor has confirmed that in addition to the damage to his vocal cords, he fractured his larynx which requires ongoing care.” The Members of Aerosmith: Then and Now Rock and Roll Hall ...

The white indicates the fluid meal and demonstrates how it is made to go around the epiglottis and into the esophagus. The dotted blue arrow ... expansion of the uvula and elevation of the hyoid bone ...